And it's true, I'm afraid;
For I heard Mrs. PARSONS, the wife of the Vicar,
Inform Countess C. (who's forgiven, you know)
That each day she appears to get thicker and thicker
With N., though engaged to be married to O.
MAUD has written to mother, and said in her letter
(Marked "private ") that T., who has taken to drink,
And been sent to a sort of a home, is no better,
And quenches his thirst, when he can, with the ink.
And the Dowager Duchess of M. (the old sinner!)
Has dropped all the money she had backing gees;
While the Colonel, who's said to have spotted the winner,
Owns most of the horses that _lost_, if you please!
But dear MAUD is the one for the news that's exciting.
You've wasted your paper in sending to _me_.
I would just as soon think, love, of flying as writing
_One word_ of the scandal of afternoon tea.
Give my love to your mother, and kisses to DORA--
(She's doing the season with you, I presume?)
And believe me your ever affectionate, FLORA.
P.S. Mrs. K. has eloped with her groom!
_Scandal Hall, Torking_.
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ONLY FANCY!
We find the following paragraph in a contemporary:--
A meeting on the Somersetshire floods has been summoned by the
Earl of CORK, Lord-Lieutenant of the County, for to-morrow, at
Bridgewater.
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